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Publication details [#57841]

Kamhawi, Rasha, Juliet Henderson, Amy Jo Coffey and Paul Fishwick. 2013. New media environments’ comparative effects upon intercultural sensitivity: A five-dimensional analysis. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 37 (5) : 605–627.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | gender | intercultural communication | internet

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines how a virtual (i.e., Second Life®) versus a Web environment affect individual intercultural sensitivity. Drawing on a changed version of Chen and Starosta's Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS), interaction attentiveness was identified as playing the most important and statistically significant role in intercultural sensitivity results.